Thomas William Parr

Also known as William Parr
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Thomas William Parr was a sketcher, explorer, clerk and convict. He embarked for New South Wales in 1787. Parr worked as a mineralogist on John Oxley's expeditions to the interior beyond the Blue Mountains, NSW.

Citations

  • Information sourced from Bonyhady, T. Archives Office of New South Wales, Sydney, WCCJ/6, 04-19, (1814), 'Minutes of the Court of Civil Jurisdiction’.

  • Gillen, M. (1989), 'The Founders of Australia’, Sydney.

  • Finney, C.M. (1984), 'To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Natural History in Australia 1699-1829’, Adelaide.

  • Oxley, J. (1820), 'Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, Undertaken by Order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18’, London.

  • Tench, W. (1789), 'A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay’, London.

  • Information sourced from Bonyhady, T.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870